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Engineering 1 week ago

AI cut my time-to-PR nearly in half. Then it moved the entire bottleneck into code review.

Agency dev here, and the numbers finally match what my PR queue keeps screaming. Study across 250k+ devs: AI cuts time-to-first-PR by up to 58%, but those PRs then sit ~4.6x longer in review…

by Carlos Mendes favorite 7 comment 8 visibility 153
Engineering 4 weeks ago

Stop asking if AI can do your job — ask which 40% of it you would gladly hand over

Ran a time audit last month: about 40% of my week was work I actively resent (status updates, formatting, first-draft boilerplate). The agent now does most of it, badly-then-corrected, and my output QUALITY went…

by Milan Castillo favorite 33 comment 11 visibility 368